Jean-Claude Milner - The REVOLUTION, Infinite Conjuction

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S: Journal o he Jan van Eyck Circle or Lacanian Ideology Criique 3 (2010): 6469

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H E R E V O L U I O N ,

Innite Conjunction

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m s. Ts s , m s, xms . C, s sm s, R s [relève ] ps; b w spm.

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B ps s. As , ps s m ps, b p w s s ps. xms , s b : the only material efect worthy o this name

inscribes itsel in the register o rebellion. S, w ; s, p psps, b w sm. T ws smms ss— ws s s m: s pps b Hms As (b Ts

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w mb : m , ms s s b p G s. Ts s

p b , s B ms s sp ms m s , s mps.3. I mms s sbj, w w R ’As,D’une mort à l’autre (Ps, L S, 1989) 80. As S. Lzs, “L é s Ré Fçs,” 2527.4. L. Sss, La Cité et l’Homme , 248; L Sss, Te City and Man (C L:Us C Pss, 1964).




ss. W w m ss m. A G xm s ms sbs m, s s m x s m m s mss. Fw s ms, ms j s ms s pps mt . Cs, xp m , s.

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mps s Gsm, ms mmz. Mx b b b pj s ms; Capital s Mm Pps j. H s m ppss pmt m mms

j G s, Mx w b s bm bs w R ( w, w s s pp s p b ws ws s s s). Is ss , b s ss , ss [ USSR] sMx, s s ss sm j.

T s ss, s zs sm w ppss:i the most valuable material efects o thoughts are inscribed in the register o rebel-

lion, all other material efects should be evaluated according to the greatest or least

homogeneity that they entertain with rebellion; the world in this vision is nothing but

the set o prevented, aborted, interrupted, continued, successul rebellions; or this very

reason, it is nothing but the set o material efects o thought; i we admit that, seized

in its extension, this set bears the name o history, there will be no inscription in his-

tory other than in the orm o rebellions 6 ; i we admit that, seized as an extension, this

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set takes on the name o politics, the name o politics will not be valid except to the

exact extent that it seizes the combination o two quanta-a quantum o rebellion and a

quantum o thought,7 the two names o politics and history are coextensive; they are not

synonymous, etc.

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T s s j b s w Sp Rm. B w .

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ss: m w , s mxmm s s s .

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Sm m b sps . W w ms s s s sm w ( w , w , w ss s). T ss w s s s s.

T R s w , p, w s p mps s xp R. W s s w s s s , s w ms , m , .




Psp s b b s. I s s b j, bs, s ws s sp . M s, H pp ss (“ w wss ”); s , bms s spsb; sm m, ppss s s s ss s, s s t ws s . T m s s bmsspfs. As s, 1917, pp pps s ps ; , b ms , w psw w w b xs sb s, s s ss m USSR C.

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